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The Locusts
"God's promises are like stars-- the darker the night, the brighter they shine." --Jan Coleman, author of After the Locusts. In the book of Joel, a devastating event occurs, something which will be retold to subsequent generations: Has anything like this happened in...
Wait for the Savior
You Will Rise Up in the End “Every stone that makes you stumble and cuts you when you fall Every serpent here that strikes your heel to curse you when you crawl The king of love one day will crush them all And every sad seduction and every clever lie Every word that...
What is the Good News?
“To the extent that we remain pilgrims in this life, the gospel will remain strange even to us. Until the day we die, we will struggle to believe the bad news and Good News that God announces to us. We do not just naturally think that we are born in sin, spiritually...
Thanksgiving and The Beach
I haven't posted in a while. All of you reading this regularly (how many of you are there?a handful?? lol) know that. Thanks for hanging in there with me. There are reasons. I won't go into all of them at this moment. Just returned from a Thanksgiving trip down south....
A Quote– Food for Thought
The Great Reversal “Christ wins our salvation through losing, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. And those who receive his salvation are not the strong and accomplished but those who admit they are weak and lost.” -...
Strawberry Time!
I took the kids strawberry picking last Saturday. We picked 11 pounds! On Sunday I took them to a local strawberry festival. (Am I good mom or what??!!) We've frozen about half of the berries. We were going to make jam, but I've found out the process is going to take...
Being Renewed
I am reflecting today on what it means to be "renewed". If a person is renewed, he is a "new creature", the "old has passed away, the new has come." We are admonished to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie...
Words of Encouragement, Part Three
Make a point, whenever you receive a promise from God, to get all you can out of it. If you carry out that rule, it is wonderful what you will gain. Some go on the principle of getting as little as possible out of God’s word. Such a plan may be wise with a man’s word,...
Who am I?
Who am I, that God should care for me? Who am I, that He cares to know my name? Who am I, that Christ should die for me? "I am a flower, quickly fading, a wave tossed in the ocean..." My life, my days, are like a vapor, quickly disappearing. ... For what is your...
The Message
Recently I purchased a copy of The Message. Am I really enjoying it! It's quite different, a breath of fresh air. Here's a passage I like: God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets...
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